The practical railway engineer : a concise description of the engineering and mechanical operations and structures which are combined in the formation of railways for public traffic : embracing an account of the principal works executed in the construction of railways to the present time : with facts, figures, and data, intended to assist the civil engineer in designing and executing the important details required for those great public works / by G. Drysdale Dempsey, civil engineer ; seventy-one quarto plates, seventy-two woodcuts, and portrait.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dempsey, G. Drysdale (George Drysdale), -1859, author.

Series:

Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890.

Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads.

Railroad engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 428 pages, lxxi plates, 44 pages) : illustrations, portrait.

Edition:

Fourth edition, revised and greatly extended.

Place of Publication:

London : John Weale, 1855.

Notes:

Includes index.

Seventy-one double quarto plates, seventy-two woodcuts and portrait.

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] I1.855 folio.

Local Notes:

University of London, the Goldsmiths' Library.

OCLC:

1198249321

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